How to schedule carousel posts with Zapier

Zapier allows you to automate workflows between different apps —including scheduling carousel posts to Vista Social!

This guide will walk you through setting up a Zap to schedule a carousel post automatically.

Before proceeding, ensure you have:

A Zapier account
A Vista Social account (in case you haven't signed up yet, click here)
An Excel/Google Sheet or another app that contains your post details, with a multiple columns for your images (we will use this to trigger post scheduling)
A cloud storage account (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox) or any other online storage that allows you to have accessible direct links for your images

Note: You can also upload images to your Vista Social media library and grab direct media links from there.

Now let's begin creating our Zap!

Setting up your Trigger Event

1. On Zapier, click Create → Zaps.

2. Choose your trigger app (e.g., Google Sheets, Airtable, or another data source where your post details are stored). Let's use Google Sheets as an example.

3. Select a trigger event (e.g., "New Spreadsheet Row" if using Google Sheets).

4. Connect your trigger app and configure it to fetch post details (caption, image links, scheduling time, etc.).

5. Test your trigger to make sure you have set it up correctly.

Setting up your Action Event

1. Click on Action, then search for and select Vista Social.

3. Choose the action Schedule Post.

4. Connect your Vista Social account using your API key which you can find in your Integration settings.

5. Back in Zapier, map the required fields for the post.

6. This is the important step: Under Media, make sure to add all the link columns to your post.

7. It's time to test our post! Hit the Test action button just like earlier.